She left her water jar. -John 4:28 Today’s Gospel of the cleansing of the Temple is one of the most familiar – and uncomfortable – passages of the Bible. We are familiar with the story, but I don’t think any…
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Photos and Notations from our own Fr. Nathan! São João Batista, the Oblate parish in Jundiaí, Brazil, where I had have now concelebrated several Masses (no português!), including the 50th ordination anniversary of Father Pedro and the perpetual religious vows…
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God has not grown weary of us. Let us welcome Lent as the great season in which he reminds us: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of…
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Restoration & Transformation In today’s Gospel, Jesus heals the leper by his word and by the touch of his hand. “I do will it. Be made clean.” Jesus restores him to physical health, and in doing so, also restores his…
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“...Faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead.” (James 2:17) St. Paul in today’s second reading describes his approach to evangelization. “I have become all things to all, to save at least some. All this I do…
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“He spoke with authority, not like the scribes and Pharisees.” Like the scribes and Pharisees, we acquire authority by trial and error. We accumulate knowledge through study, and the more our knowledge and experience grows, the greater authority we can…
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New Church Entry Policies Starting next week, January 27-28, we will ask all those who are able to enter through the main doors of the Church. If it is a hardship for you to enter through the main doors, the…
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Peter was free because he was set free. At the heart of Peter’s story is not his own gifts and abilities; at the center is the encounter with Christ that changed his life. He experienced a love that healed him…
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Meeting Jesus Changes Us At the end of today’s Gospel, we hear that the wise men “returned to their own country by a different way.” On the surface, they took a “different way” in order to avoid Herod’s jealous wrath,…
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Welcome God’s love into your home! I think that’s a pretty simple summary of today’s feast of the Holy Family. God the Son really entered our human family. In Nazareth, he learned to walk and speak, to labor and to…
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